What do the rose and thorns symbolize in the following passage? charles caught the eye of the mayor’s youngest daughter, elena. elena was impressed with charles’s jolly and nature. none of the other boys were as chivalrous as he was, either. but her parents thought he was unworthy of their daughter's affections. for his part, charles knew he was no prince. but he had fallen in love with a rose in the garden—a rose like the one he held in his hands as he tried to look for elena at the fair. but then he saw her with another young man from town. as he looked on, his hand clutched the rose tighter, and the thorns dug into his palms. a few drops of blood escaped from the wound, but charles remained oblivious to the pain. a. life and love b. beauty and pain c. hope and joy d. life and death

i think it could possibly be b

boccaccio employs the voice of his narrator dioneo to represent his ideas on the tension between masculinity and femininity.  while dioneo excites the members of the brigata and recognizes women for their unique skills and independent ideas, he concludes the decameron with a story reminiscent of the society from which these young aristocrats escaped, revealing misogynistic overtones.  dioneo boccaccio is able to explore the gender disparity which is inherent in 14th century florentine society.

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1) if the central idea of "nameless, tn" is "even the tiniest of towns, and the people living there, have value and meaning in this world," which of the following pieces of evidence from the story does not support this central idea?  

a. miss ginny keeps a deathbook of all those in nameless who have passed.

b. there was a doctor who cared about the people and the old way of doing things.

c. miss ginny doesn't like the look of the narrator's van.

d. the general store provided a variety of goods for all the people in nameless.

2)authors rarely state the central idea in narrative nonfiction. how can a reader find the central idea when the author doesn’t state it explicitly?

a. to find the central idea, you look for outside resources about the text and try to determine it through their analysis.

b. to find the central idea, you look at the details in the text: what characters say and do, the events that occur, important challenges or conflicts represented, and the setting. then you think about how these details work together to build and convey a big idea or message

c. to find the central idea, you look at the first paragraph of the story and make a guess.

d. none of these.